Programming Reactive Extensions and LINQ

Example: Parsing a Tab Separated File

A real-world challenge, made more tractable by LINQ, is parsing a delimited file and extracting useful information as if it came from a normalized database. In this next example, we parse the contents of a tab-separated, value text file. The following are the first few lines of the file and its tab-separated fields:

name    id        beer_style        first_brewed        alcohol_content        original_gravity             final_gravity        ibu_scale        country        brewery_brand        color_srm        from_region            containers Miller Genuine Draft        /m/02hv39w Hakim Stout        /m/059q7h1        Stout                5.8                                         Harar Beer Factory                Ethiopia         ...